The Dark Side of the Moon

Artiste Pink Floyd

Année 1973

Genre Rock

Note ★★★★★

★ Album culte

Titres

1 Speak to Me / Breathe 3:57

2 On the Run ♪ 3:30

Baggage, your passports ready,
and follow the green line to customs and then to immigration
BA two-one-five to Rome, Prado, Naples
May I have your attention, please,
customs will be receiving passengers
for BA two-one-five to Rome, Prado, Naples
Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me
Ha-ha-ha-a-a-a-a-a!

3 Time ♪ 6:53

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over thought I'd something more to say

Home home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithfull to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

4 The Great Gig in the Sky ♪ 4:44

And I am not frightened of dying
Any time will do, I don't mind
Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime

I never said I was frightened of dying

I never said I was afraid of dying

5 Money ♪ 6:22

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're OK
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet

Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise
It's no surprise that they're giving none away

[Interview excerpts]
- Yeah (chuckles) I was in the right!
- Yes, absolutely in the right!
- I certainly was in the right!
- Yeah, I was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!
- Yeah!
- Why does anyone do anything?
- I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!
- I was just telling him it was in, he could get it in Number Two. He was asking why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. After, I was yelling and screaming and telling him why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. It came to a heavy blow, which sorted the matter out

6 Us and Them ♪ 7:49

Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me,and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat,and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried
Listen son,said the man with the gun
there's room for you inside

Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With,without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind
For wants of the price of a tea and a slice
The old man died.

7 Any Colour You Like 3:26

8 Brain Damage ♪ 3:49

The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
got to keep the loonies on the path

The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in my hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
and if there is no room upon the hill
and if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
you raise the blade, you make the change
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane
you lock the door
and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

9 Eclipse ♪ 2:03

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
Everyone you meet
All that you slight
Everyone you fight
all that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

Mon avis

Un chef-d'œuvre absolu. De « Breathe » à « Eclipse », chaque titre s'enchaîne avec une fluidité hypnotique. La production de Alan Parsons reste une référence 50 ans après sa sortie. L'album qui a tout changé.

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